Past Faculty Fellows

Past Faculty Fellows

  • 2024

    Spring

    • Heather DeHaan (History)

    "Myths of Collective Life: Neighborhood Imagination in Soviet Baku"

    • Mateo Duque (Philosophy)

    "Acting Out Philosophy: Socrates Becoming Diotima in Plato's Symposium"

    • Monika Mehta (English)

    "'Spreadable' Censorship and Networked Cultures"

    • Shay Rabineau (Judaic Studies)

    "Dead Sea Walking"

    • Katherine Reinhart (Art History) 

    "'Sic Itur Ad Astra': The Politics of Architecture and the Construction of the Paris Observatory"

  • 2023

    Fall

    • Jeroen Gerrits (Comparative Literature)

    "Herzog Revisited, or: What Becomes of Things on the Web"

    • Praseeda Gopinath (English)

     ¡°'Broken Steps of the Step-Well': Assertive Dalit Masculinities¡±

    • Kent Schull (History)

    "Providing for the Mormon-Armenian Community: Carpets, Agriculture & the Mormon Coloby Scheme in the Late Ottoman Empire"

    • Hebatalla Taha (Israel Studies)

    "Atoms for Peace in the Middle East: Reactors, Borders, and US Nuclear Diplomacy"

    • Alexis Wang (Art History)

    "Mirrors, Rainbows, and the Catoptric Image in the Arena Chapel"

    Spring

    • BrieAnna Langlie (Anthropology)

    "Taming Nature: The History of Farming and the Future of Food"

    • Carl Gelderloos (German)

     ¡°Modernization, Modernism, and Science Fiction in Bernhard Kellermann¡¯s The Tunnel (1913)¡±

    • Omid Ghaemmaghami (MEAMS)

    "Exploring the Kit¨¢b-i-Aqdas of Bah¨¢¡¯u¡¯ll¨¢h: History and Significance of a Nineteenth Century Text"

    • Ekrem Karakoc (Political Science)

    "Agency and Context in Communal Violence"

    • Benjamin Fordham (Political Science)

    "Race, Globalization, and the Demise of Southern Support for Multilateralism, 1945-1965"

  • 2022

    Fall

    • Elizabeth DiGangi (Anthropology)

    "What Are You?: Being Multiracial in the 21st Century"

    • Elisa Camiscioli (History)

    "Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations"

    • Mary Youssef (MEAMS)

    "Together from Womb to Tomb: Sisters and Brothers of the Nation-State"

    • Nate Andrade (History)

    "Syrian Diasporas of the Ancient Roman and Iranian Worlds"

    • Seden Akcinaroglu (Political Science)

    "A Battle to Lose? Impact of Government Concessions on Electoral Outcomes"

    Spring

    • Elizabeth Casteen (History)
      Title: ¡°¡®Rape through Force and Violence¡¯: The Case against Fontfroide Abbey, 1321-1322¡±
    • Dina Danon (JUST)
      Title: "Negotiating Modernity: The Marketplace of Matchmaking, Marriage, and Divorce in the Ottoman Sephardi World"
    • Joshua Reno (Anthropology)
      Title: "Playing for Something: A Study of Gaming in and as Practice"
    • Olga Shvetsova (Political Science)
      Title: "How Political Incumbents Redesigned Their National Institutions During the Pandemic"
    • Lisa T. Yun (AAAS and English)
      Title: "Digital for Ourselves: Your Story, Our Story"
  • 2021

    Fall

    • McDonough, Tom (Art History): ¡°Images in Crisis¡±
    • Rojas, Ren¨¦ (CCPA-Human Development): ¡°Parsing the Paradox of Local Reaction"
    • Scholtz, Andrew (CNES): ¡°Race for Glory: Competition and Its Discontents in the Roman East¡±
    • Stoever, Jennifer Lynn (English): ¡°Making Parking Ramps Dance and Department Stores Tremble: Re-Sounding Community Via Artistic Encounter with the ÂÌñÉç Historical Soundwalk Project¡±
    • White, Kenneth (Cinema): ¡°Hyperventilation Syndrome: Media Cultures, Control Societies¡ªcirca 1970¡±

    Spring

    • Danberg, Robert (Writing Initiative): "Hope Is A Navigator/How to Survive in the Woods: What To Do When Writing Is Difficult"
    • Kleinberg, Katja (Political Science): "Gender, Structural Discrimination, and Attitudes toward Globalization"
    • Parkinson, Robert (History):  "The Heart of American Darkness"
    • Shamma, Tarek (Comparative Literature/TRIP): "Anthology of Arabic Discourse on Translation"
    • Strippoli, Roberta (AAAS): "Tokiko, a 12th Century Japanese Woman in History, Legend, and Monuments"
    • Wheeler, Leigh Ann (History): "Anne Moody's Global Citizenship During the Late Cold War"
  • 2020

    Fall

    • Garcia, Oscar Gil (Human Development): ¡°Legacies of Forced Migrations¡±
    • Havard, John (English): ¡°Radical Reformer: The First Modern Politician¡±
    • Karnein, Anja (Philosophy): "Human Death and Future Generations"
    • Reeder, Jessie (English): ¡°Who Witnesses the Apocalypse?¡±

    Spring

    • Brown, David (English): ¡°Code Black: Whiteness and Unmanliness in Shakespeare¡¯s Hamlet¡±
    • Chronopulos, Tina (CNES): ¡°Incomprehensibility in the Greek Passion of St. Katherine of Alexandria¡±
    • Libman, Lior (Judaic Studies): ¡°The Politics of Signification in Early Israeli Literature¡±
    • Tessman, Lisa (Philosophy): ¡°Moral Injury and Moral Failure¡±
    • Wilson, Thomas (Anthropology): ¡°Brexit and Europeanization in the Northern Ireland Borderlands¡±
  • 2019

    Fall

    • Bisaha, David (Theatre): ¡°The Show Must Go On: Disciplining Theater Professionals¡±
    • Kirschen, Bryan (Romance Languages, Linguistics): ¡°Welcome to La Amerika: Linguistic Assimilation of the Sephardim¡±
    • Moore, Jason (Sociology): ¡°Ecology and the Rise of Capitalism¡±
    • Smart, Pamela (Art History): ¡°The Technical Production of Affect: Renovating the Rothko Chapel¡±
    • Wolf-Meyer, Matthew (Anthropology): ¡°The Colony Within: Excremental Medicine and the Politics of Race in the United States¡±

    Spring

    • Cheng, John (AAAS): ¡°Unnatural Citizens: The Precarity and Persistence of Asian American Racial Formation¡±
    • Gates, Leslie (Sociology): ¡°Anticapitalist Populism and Populist Capitalists: The Politics of Oil and Neoliberalism in Mexico and Venezuela (1935-2000)¡±
    • Moore, Alexandra (English): ¡°Ghost Detainees and State Power Across the Thresholds of Detectability¡±
    • Rasmussen, Birgit (English): ¡°American Beowulf: Native American Literature 901 AD¡±
  • 2018

    Fall

    • Akcinaroglu, Seden (Political Science): "Forcing Government's Hand: Ethnic Terrorism, Constituency Reforms, and Improvement in Minority Rights"
    • Becker, Hilary (CNES): "Commerce in Color"
    • Dey, Arnab (History): "Unkempt Edens: Tea Cultures in Eastern India, 1840-1940"
    • Gerk, Sara (Music): "Famine, War, and the Music that Binds: Irish Methods of Coping with Trauma and the US Civil War"
    • Mathews, Nathaniel (Africana Studies): "Race, migration and citizenship in colonial Zanzibar"
    • Walker, Julia (Art History): "'Form is nothing but emptiness, emptiness nothing but form': Brigitte D'Ortschy and Frank Lloyd Wright in Germany, America, and Japan"

    Spring

    • Gelderloos, Carl (German and Russian Studies): "Doing and Suffering in Paul Scheerbart's 'Lesab¨¦ndio'"
    • Gerrits, Jeroen (Comparative Literature): "Doing and Suffering in Paul Scheerbart's 'Lesab¨¦ndio'"
    • Patterson, Jeanette (Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Translation): "Cultivating the Reader in the Bible historiale"
    • Skopyk, Brad (History): "Colonial Cataclysms: Climate, Culture, and Landscape during Mexico's Little Ice Age"
    • Wang, Yi (History): "Merchants, Monetization, and Networking: Chinese Commercial Expansion in Qing Mongolia"
  • 2017

    Fall

    • Bosworth, Yulia (Romance Languages): "Public perception of politician language use in Quebec: At the crossroads of linguistic norm and sociolinguistic identity"
    • Candela, Ana Maria (Sociology): "How the World Came Home: Migration and the Deepening Global Color Line In Early 20th Century China"
    • Dement, Sidney (German and Russian Studies): "Banyas, Liminality, and the Otherworld in M.A. Bulgakov's 'Master and Margarita'"
    • Norwood, Dael (History): "Developing 'ÂÌñÉç's Business': Local Histories of Capitalism Using DH Tools"
    • Parekh, Surya (English): "Black Enlightenment: The Case of Ignatius Sancho"

    Spring

    • Iser, Mattias (Philosophy): ¡°Fighting without a Chance¡±
    • Leja, Meg (History): "Penance as Medicine: Intersecting Genres in Early Medieval Thought"
    • Montenegro, Giovanna (Comparative Literature): "German Bankers and the Conquest of Venezuela: Cultural Memory of 'Heretic' Capital and Colonization"
    • Stoever, Jennifer (English): "Hip Hop's Living Room DJs: Black Women and Latinas Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and 1970s New York"
    • Whearty, Bridget (English, Medieval and Renaissance Studies): "Necromancing the Archive"
  • 2016

    Fall

    • Danon, Dina (Judaic Studies): "Social Stratification in the Eastern Sephardi Diaspora: The Case of Ottoman Izmir"
    • Dunwoody, Sean (Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History): "Passions and the Peaceable Kingdom: Religious and Civic Emotions in Early Modern Augsburg"
    • Karein, Anja (Philosophy): "Duties of Beneficence, Obligatory Aid, And What Any of This has to do with Helping the Global Poor"
    • Reeder, Jessie (English): "The Problem of Progress in 1810"

    Spring

    • Barzman, Karen-edis (Art History): "Soft Architecture and the ¡®Movable City¡¯ ¨C Military Camps in Europe's Early Modern Borderlands¡±
    • Ghaemmaghami, Omid (CNES): "¡®And like that, he's gone!¡¯: Confession, Contention, and the Hidden Imam in Twelver Shi'i Islam¡±
    • Hatch, Kevin (Art History): "¡®Being Gone¡¯: Chris Burden's B.C. Mexico (1973)¡±
    • Karp, Jonathan (History, Judaic Studies): ¡°Jewish-Owned Venues for Black Music in Twentieth-Century New York¡±
    • Kim, Sonja (AAAS): ¡°The Birth of the T'omangmin (ÍÁÄ»Ãñ): Affect, Science, and Medicine in Management of the Urban Poor in 1930s and 1940s Korea¡±
    • Wall, Wendy (History): ¡°Neo-Malthusianism and the Immigration Act of 1965¡±
    • Weintraub, Michael (Political Science): "Vigilante Mobilization and Local Order: Evidence from Mexico"
  • 2015

    Fall

    • Casanova-Vizcaino, Sandra (Romance Languages): "¡®The Killer Among Us¡¯: Serial Killing in Contemporary Puerto Rican Narrative"
    • Cope, Robyn (Romance Languages): "Americanness, Caribbeanness and Creoleness in Lakshmi Persaud's Butterfly in the Wind and Sastra"
    • Gopinath, Praseeda (English): "Ranveer Singh's ¡®Chichorapan¡¯: Habitus, Masculinity, and Stardom"
    • Wall, Wendy (History): "¡®A Gauge of Our Faithfulness': Religion and the Politics of Immigration Reform"
    • Youssef, Mary (CNES): ¡°Reimagining Migration and Gender in Brooklyn Heights and Chicago¡±

    Spring

    • Cheng, John (AAAS): "When (East) Indians Were White, Then Not: Racial Formation and Naturalization Law in the Early 20th-Century United States"
    • Dement, Sidney (German and Russian Studies): "'Pushkin' is our Everything: Delimiting the Referentiality of the Monument in Tatyana Tolstaya's Slynx"
    • McConn, Mathew (Education): "History of Literary Appreciation in the United States"
    • Moore, Jason (Sociology): "Cheap Food and Bad Climate: From Surplus-Value to Negative-Value in the Capitalist World-Ecology"
    • Reeves, Anthony (Philosophy): "Human Rights, Risk, and Responsibility"
    • Starks, John (CENS): "Lysioidia: 'Transgendering' Actresses/Actors in Hellenistic Greek and Roman Republican Theater"
  • 2014

    Fall

    • Candela, Ana Maria (Sociology): "The Coolie Specter: A Ghost of Primitive Accumulations Past, Present and Futures"
    • Chronopoulos, Tina (CENS): "Ganymede in the Twelfth-century Classroom: Two Odes by Horace"
    • Holmes, Douglas (Anthropology): "Making a Public Currency/Call it Fascism"
    • Massey, Drew (Music): "Thomas Ad¨¨s and the Dilemmas of Musical Surrealism"
    • Newberry, Jay (Geography): ¡°Determinants of Somali Secondary Migrations in the United States¡±
    • Pavlovskis-Petit, Zoja (Comparative Literature)
    • Youseff, Mary (CNES): "Historical Transformations and the Rise of a New-Consciousness Novel in Egypt"
    • Yun, Lisa (English, AAAS): "Testimonies and Debates of Coolie Trafficking: The Colonial Past and the Global Present"

    Spring

    • Chronopoulos, Tina (CENS): ¡°Aetas Horatiana: Reading Horace's Odes in Twelfth-Century England and France¡±
    • Friedman, Randy (Judaic Studies): ¡°Gods of Becoming¡±
    • Holmes, Olivia (English, Medieval and Renaissance Studies): "From Demons to Ducklings: Travels of the Buddha in Medieval Tuscany"
    • O¡¯Hearn, Denis (Sociology): "Exilic Spaces and the World-Economy: Territorial and Structural Escape"
    • Schleuse, Paul (Music): "Identity, Alterity, and Abstract Opera: Robert Wilson and Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach (1976¨C2012)"  
  • 2013

    Fall

    • Abou El Haj, Barbara (Art History): "Lordship and Commune: A Comparative Study of Building and Decorating in Reims and Amiens"
    • Dehaan, Heather (History): "In the Neighborhood of Empire: Baku Communities in the Interwar Period"
    • Hassoun, Nicole (Philosophy): "Access to Essential Medicines: Why We Should Support the Global Health Impact Campaign"
    • Laats, Adam (Education, History): "Democracy" and American Education, 1930-1960¡±
    • Wall, Wendy (History): "¡®To Wage the Peace': The 1965 Immigration Act and the Cold War Politics of Immigration Reform"

    Spring

    • Glick, Douglas (Anthropology, Linguistics): "The Social Production of Meaning: Parallelism as a Semiotic Principle"
    • MacKenney, Richard (History): "The Renaissance: Inter-Disciplinary Approaches"
    • Stoever, Jennifer (English): "The Sonic Color-Line: Race and The Cultural Politics of Listening in America"
    • Tomich, Dale (Sociology): "Sugar, Slavery and Landscape in 19th Century Cuba: A Visual History" 
  • 2012

    Fall

    • Guay, Robert (Philosophy): "Nietzsche on Truth and Politics"
    • Henkel, Scott (English): "Censorship and Cooperation in Salt of the Earth"
    • Keith, Joseph (English): "Islands of the Rational: Race, Decolonization and the Dialogics of Modernity in Richard Wright's late work"
    • Morewedge, Rosmarie (German and Russian Studies): "Herzog Ernst B: An Experiment in Narration and Nation Building"
    • Rosenberg, Liz (English): "House of Dreams: The Story of L. M. Montgomery, author of ¡®Anne of Green Gables¡¯"
    • Walkling, Andrew (Art History, English, Theatre): "From Pole to Pole Resounding: Epideictic, Performativity, and Musical Rhetoric in John Dryden's "Albion and Albanius" 

    Spring

    • Henkel, Scott (English): "Sedition and the Slave Narrative"
    • Kinney, Kelly (English): "Process Gives Way to Product: A Theory of Grading Student Writing"
    • Lee, Yoonkyung (Sociology): "From Regionalism to Programmatic Competition: Korean Political Parties Under Transformation"
    • Nzegwu, Nkiru (Africana Studies): "Critically Theorizing African Heterosexuality"
    • Starks, John (Classics): "vox feminae, vox populi (A Woman's Voice, The People's Voice): Demand for Actresses in the Roman World
    • Wall, Brian (Cinema, Art History): "The Object of and in Film Theory: The Maltese Falcon (1941)"
    • Yun, Lisa (English, AAAS): "The Other Side of Abolition" 
  • 2011

    Fall

    • Mehta, Monika (English): "DVD Compilations of Hindi Film Songs: (Re) Shuffling Sound, Stardom and Cinephilia"
    • Pages, Neil Christian (German and Russian Studies): "Kafka and His Readers"
    • Tessman, Lisa (Philosophy): "Moral Failure"
    • Wall, Brian (Cinema, Art History): "¡®A deeper breath¡¯: From Body to Spirit in Kiss Me Deadly" (1955)
    • Zils, Harald (German and Russian Studies): "Ernst J¨¹nger's Total Moment: 'Das Abenteuerliche Herz' and 20th century European Aesthetics"
    • Yun, Lisa (English, AAAS): "From Coolies to Model Minorities: Retelling the Pacific Passage"

    Spring

    • Gates, Leslie (Sociology): "Corruption Politics and Neoliberalism"
    • Henkel, Scott (English): "Sedition and the Slave Narrative"
    • Martinek, Wendy (Political Science): "Judicial Identity and Judicial Choice."
    • Polachek, Dora (Romance Languages): "The Animal/Human Divide: Brant?me¡¯s Dames Galantes and the Woman Question"
    • Ros, Ana (Romance Languages): "Postmemory and Reconciliation in Argentine Postdictatorship"
    • Roth, Benita (Sociology): "Gender and Sexuality in an Anti-AIDS Organization: An Intersectional Perspective."
    • Willson, Thomas (Anthropology): ¡°The Europeanization of a Rural Irish County¡±
  • 2010

    Fall

    • Brinker-Gabler, Gisela (Comparative Literature): ¡°Nachtrauer: Lou Andreas-Salome's Rilke Book¡±
    • Friedman, Randy (Judaic Studies): ¡°Reading Rosenzweig Reading Torah¡±
    • Gopinath, Praseeda (English): ¡°The Middle-Grade Civil Servant: Masculinity, Englishness, and James Bond¡±
    • Moreira, Luiza (Comparative Literature): ¡°The Journalism of Cec¨ªlia Meireles: Debates on Education in the thirties and forties¡±
    • Pettid, Michael (AAAS): ¡°Rural Life, Economics, and Women in Chos?n Korea (1392-1910): Relative Equality and Empowerment in a Confucian Society?¡± 
    • Ros, Ana (Romance Languages): ¡°On Mourning, Inheritance, Arts and Politics: Films by/on Sons and Daughters of Disappeared Prisoners During the Argentine Dictatorship¡±
    • Roth, Benita (Sociology): ¡°The Messiness of Activist Spaces¡±
    • Schleuse, Paul (Music): "'A Tale Completed in the Mind': The Theatrical Origin and Recreational Function of Orazio Vecchi's L'Amfiparnaso (1597)."